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Gut-wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today

  • Written by Meghan Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
imageA mural outside St. Jude Thaddeus Church in Silao, Mexico, quotes the Good Samaritan story: 'Go and do likewise.'Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more than a mainstay of Sunday school courses. “Good samaritan” is the catch-all way to describe a do-gooder...

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